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Ian: I am not sure how often I would use that option, but I can see its use. Should it not also be made a properities option for OBJECT EDITORS as well ??

Clive: I have not had the "joy" that you are experienceing (yet) 1. Were the 3 mp3's mixed to make one track? I suspect not. I have not tried shows with 3 separate musical pieces, I always mix them into one. (Audacity, Accoustica, or Cool Edit as have been mentioned many times on other threads) 2. Are the image transitions smaller in time than the durations, or do we transitions overlapping with shorter "on-screen time" ? 3. Is each MP3 spec'ed the same as the others ? 4. Are the other computers at least as powerful as yours ? PTE does take some horsepower to run particularly for fades.

Jenny: Welcome to the Forum You can use the right/left click etc. Look for that in the top third of PROJECT OPTIONS > ADVANCED Have fun with PTE, we do !!!

Alan: (from one oldie to another) Are you getting a nice smooth fade in "short" transitions such as 1-2 seconds with files that size ?? What image size (pixel dimensions are using) What are the typical computer specs ?

Jack: I must admit I have not followed all the discussion above re compression quality etc etc, as I have been very pleased with my quality of image at 800x600 jpg quality 5 from PhotoShop. Your 17 image, 2.4mb, 9 minute to download show sounds WAY out of line and not normal at all. I believe that there have been other threads in this forum that would agree. Are you using fades for transition and what duration time for the fade ?

I agree with Mike. I make my PTE images 800Wx600H or 400Wx600H, saving them as jpg's in Photoshop with a quality 5. That seems to give me nice smooth fades.

welcome to the forum bj !! I had this reply ready to go when my modem disconnected Alrobin has said essentially what I was going to say, but I'll say it anyway. There are several threads that discuss your issue, but suffice it to say that you need to get a sound mixer software. You can "paste" them together to run as you want. Recommended choices seem to be: Audacity (free download) I have not used this one, but some senior members recommend it Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer ($25US ??) should do most of what you will ever need, very easy to use Cool Edit with Studio plug-in ($95US ?) has lots of bells and whistles that might come in handy as you progress. I have both Accoustica and Coole Edit Just do a Google search for their websites Have fun with PTE

"Object Editor" thread might help. See it at http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=369 Guido's suggestion of using a windowed mode approach has some definite benefits

Igor: With the new forum, is there a way to list all the requests for improvements to PTE that have been suggested and not implemented, and allow, somehow, the users to indicate their top three priorities. Something along the line of the voting re this forum format. I recognize that the voting might have to be done weekly as you get flooded with some many requests (give us an inch, we want a mile !! ) In the meantime, thanks for your great work and responses to requests for changes !!!!

Thanks Harold Understand your concern. In the meantime, I guess it is a case of compromising and the maker adjusting the timing factors to prevent the problem. PTE is still the best software I have seen for AV shows, but it can't be all things to all people right away.

Dana: See recent discussion re this at http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=399 (The Project has changed)

Colin There are some autorun utilities available at the beechbrook cottage site. As well there have been several fairly recent threads that talked about autorun CD's, if you did a quick search (search feature of the forum) I think you can find what you are looking for.

Rudie: Could you please explain what you mean re the quote and how it is achieved within PTE Thx

Harold: Not sure I agree with you this time. The transition time vs duration time conflict is the problem of the person setting up the slide show. A message about that might be nice (but only after we get the ability to change the transition type from the TIMELINE In the meantime the grey lines on the TIMELINE will tell you if you have a problem. The "show-maker" should fix any conflicts themselves, I don't want PTE arbitraily deciding what I wanted vs what I entered

Haroldb Once again I second your comments The "project" nomenclature is confusing. (Aspects of this were discussed several weeks back on the forum.) But the ability to work with transtion types from the timeline is much more important a "fix".

Guess I have been fortunate, I use Musicmatch JukeBox 7.10 to record all the music that I use from CD's. I have other software that will do it too, but I seem to be most comfortable with Jukebox. I fortunately have not had Alrobin's problem

Barb: Assuming it is not a function of the transitions (You did check that there are spaces of white between the grey lines on the TIMELINE ?) let me try to suggest a couple of other things here to try to figure it out. (I might be grasping at straws ) 1. Take another piece of music the same length and add it to the program, but remove the original piece before saving a new pte.exe file. Any difference ?? 2. Make up a sample image, less that 200kb and substitute it, with the same settings, for the images already in the show, just add it "x" times remove the original images ("X" in number) What happens ? As I say, I am grasping at straws here.

DonplusBarb: (Are we talking to Don or Barb ??) Welcome to PTE. Many of us think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread !! That is the first time I have heard of this issue. I assume the music plays fine out of PTE, in another software. What image sizes are you using ? Many of us try to keep the image sizes to about 100-200kb. Is the slowing down and speeding up occurring at the time of a transition ? If so are the transition overlapping. (See gray markings on the TIMELINE or use Alrobin's ADJUSTOR) Let us know and someone will figure it out for you.

Isaccreek: The time is shown as 1500 etc as these are milliseconds. It took me a short time to get used to it, but it lets you make changes to customized shows EXACTLY where you want it. When you use PROJECT OPTIONS - SYNCHRONIZE TO MUSIC - CUSTOM SYNCHRONIZE you will see where this very nice feature comes into play. Particularly when you try to be EXACT on transitions At this point PTE does not support animation in the pics (If I understand what you mean), there was a debate about "panning and zooming" about two weeks ago in the forum.

Igor: Once again, nicely done !!! Thanks Possible "nuisance bug" in 4.05 I was setting up a CUSTOM SYNCH show and set the EFFECTS on PROJECT OPTIONS to "QUICK" so for starters they would all "cut". When I was inserting my TRANSITION POINTS, they all showed at 1500ms on the TIMELINE. So I went back to EFFECTS and changed to DURATION EFFECT to 0, went back to insert TRANSTIOIN POINTS again and the grey indicators on the TIMELINE had properly disappeared. No big deal, but it threw me off for a moment. Maybe in 4.06 you could have the DURATION EFFECT default to 0 when the QUICK transition is applied as a "default" ? Thx

Thx Guido I keep forgetting about that one !! (If we had separate topics, or FAQ/Tips on this forum we could find this stuff quicker )

Truelight Get a copy of Alrobin's ADJUSTOR. I think it will give you what you want Look for the post with the red heart. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums//index...ct=ST&f=2&t=374

Cathy: Welcome to PTE It sounds to me like you have a piece of music that is longer than the time you want to leave your images up for. You have to adjust the music length outside of PTE. As has been mentioned many times recently on the forum (before you joined us ) you should use either Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer: inexpensive, simple to use, will do most things for you, or COOL EDIT (get the studio plug in too) which costs more, but has lots of bells and whistles and can do the fade out for you at the press of a button. Both are available as downloads from the net. Just GOOGLE their names.

see my reply a few spots above I meant to say: "I am not sure if ACCESS (MS's database program) will accept thumbnails." Sorry about that. ACCESS does, I am told accept thumbnails.

I use a database to track my images. I use APPROACH 97 in the LOTSU SMARTSUITE. I have 25,000, plus or minus, slides that are indexed by number, but the database has 20-25 fields that are fully searchable. Now that I have many of the slides scanned, I wish I had started with a database that allows thumbnails, but they did not exist when I started. But I search for images using any keywords I want, and then I can check on the database to see if they are scanned or not. Then I know to look in the computer for the image, or my slide books. I am not sure if EXCEL (MS's database program) will accept thumbnails. I am also not sure it is as flexible in searching as APPROACH is. From a quick look I had at it did not seem to be as flexible I have a friend who uses MULTIMEDIA XPLORER which is a database using thumbnails. (http://www.moonsoftware.com) Looks like they are giving it away now !!! Hope that helps